Episode 31. red sword. (One)
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One.
No one knew.
No one knew why, exactly when or where it appeared.
It did not seek the understanding of others in its existence.
-You poor things.
However, when it appeared, red rain fell.
-Those who do not see humans as humans.
Where the rain fell, blood soon flowed.
-You were born as humans, so you eat humans. Do you boast that this is human destiny? I would call it the karma of wild animals. Why should I not slaughter wild animals today?
Rain of nightmares.
It was on the 11th floor stage, when I was intentionally killed by a general NPC. I caught a glimpse of the general’s trauma. In the nightmare, the general was screaming.
Not just generals, but countless humans as well.
-Retreat!
-Also, it’s raining…
-Run to the land where it never rains!
Small countries on the border were the first to collapse.
The great nation that encompassed the small nations then collapsed.
Other small countries, which had been holding on to large countries as their generals, collapsed without a sound. Every time a country collapses, humanity’s territory becomes a little narrower. Every time a royal resignation disappears, human history becomes a little shorter.
But it rained.
-To a place where it doesn’t rain…
It rained.
-It’s over. It’s the end.
It rained.
-Goddess, please do not abandon us…
And then it rained.
The territory of mankind, which had been gradually narrowing, has now become only a handful, and the history of mankind, which has been gradually shortening, has now only one side left.
Officers used old quill pens sparingly. The civil servants silently accepted the fate of writing with their own hands the sentence ‘And thus mankind was destroyed’ on the last page of the history book.
Now there is only one empire left on the continent.
-You poor things.
Lord of nightmares.
King of all monsters.
Therefore, the last officers gave it a name.
-Be swallowed up by your malice.
Demon King.
2.
It rained.
The light shined.
Rain poured down on the ground, and light soared into the sky.
The light of the holy sword I drew pierced the red clouds.
“Oh oh···.”
Where the light shines, the blood drops stop falling.
The soldiers looked up at the sky with their faces covered in blood.
The rain has stopped.
“Goddess…”
That’s it.
The red raindrops just stopped.
Not all the rain had stopped.
The rain only stopped where the light of the holy sword shone.
Small comma. little light.
“The goddess…”
“God protects the empire!”
However, sometimes little is enough.
It was like that for humans who had only little left.
For the people of the empire, there was only a handful of land left. History was just the last page that had not yet been filled. The people of the kingdom knew that fact, the soldiers and generals knew it, and the Mi-gwan-mal-jik and the high-ranking official knew it.
Everyone knew that there was not [a single] NPC in the throne room.
Because the prime minister gave up on state affairs.
Because the general gave up military service.
Because the Imperial Guard no longer guarded the emperor.
Because the knights did not keep their knightly duties.
The empire that everyone abandoned.
Therefore, the tower would have been set in the empire.
As if the children everyone had abandoned were placed in a mansion on the 10th floor.
“Stand up!”
The Black Dragon Witch shouted.
One by one, the soldiers stood up, giving strength to their knees. There was a soldier standing up with his hands on the wall. There was a soldier who was leaning against a window and could barely stand up. There was a soldier who grabbed his comrade’s hand and helped him stand up.
“Stand up!”
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The witch ordered the soldiers to become the last wall of the empire. Yes. They will be walls. Just as one person’s cry echoes off a wall, the witch’s cry flowed and echoed through the soldiers of the empire.
“Stand up!”
“His Excellency the Prime Minister is here! “He is with us!”
“The progenitor’s sword protects us!”
Thus, the walls became walls, spears became spears, and soldiers became soldiers.
“Stand up, stand up!”
“What kind of disgrace is this in front of His Excellency the Prime Minister!”
The adjutants went around hitting the soldiers on the back. The soldiers suddenly came to their senses. They changed their helmets.
Bright red raindrops flowed from the edge of the helmet. However, the raindrops could no longer block the soldier’s view. The imperial soldiers looked straight ahead.
“Whoa…”
The witch sighed softly.
The black aura rising from her body gradually subsided. Did I use the auror a bit excessively? Not only did red raindrops form on the witch’s forehead, but also some transparent sweat beads.
“···why?”
The witch turned to me.
“Is this your first time seeing a Ukrainian give a speech?”
“uh···.”
“There are a lot of communists in our country.”
The witch gently raised the corners of her mouth.
I realized late that it was a smile.
“I hate communists, but they are good at giving speeches. “There was something to learn.”
“yes?”
“···Nothing.”
The witch’s face became expressionless again. The corners of her mouth lowered again. what? I didn’t understand at all what the Black Dragon Master said.
-no.
Bae Hu-ryeong suddenly intervened.
-I think he’s just trying to embarrass himself because his joke didn’t work.
‘Eh. Was that a joke earlier?
-I don’t know. That’s because of the atmosphere. But if I react like you do now… no, that’s enough. It’s a zombie. Don’t think about joining a group and hanging out with your boss. Be sure to just walk on the Hunter Road like now. got it?
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
I don’t know, but one thing was pretty clear.
“Gongja Kim. What are you going to do from now on?”
Thanks to the witch’s speech just now, the situation of the war has turned around a little.
“First, we will have to hold on to the walls.”
“Yes.”
I glared at the red horizon.
Countless monsters surrounded the Demon King. The witch’s S-class skill is instantaneous transfer. But even if she flew there through instantaneous transfer, there was no guarantee that she would be killed by the Demon Lord. You’ll probably be surrounded by monsters and die in the blink of an eye.
First of all, we need to create a 1:1 structure with the Demon King.
“We have to bring in the hunters while the soldier NPCs hold out. Then you won’t be defeated in a fight. “If the Demon King sends in more monsters to forcibly breach the castle wall…”
“What if I put it in?”
“Please transfer me to the Demon King.”
The witch stared into my face.
“You’re a special force.”
“yes.”
“Do you intend to die?”
It was a natural suspicion.
I was still only an E-class hunter. No matter how powerful the Demon King is, if his head were to be blown off by an E-class, the continent would not have been destroyed in the first place.
Heavy duty talisman. Not enough.
No matter what modifier I used, it was difficult to fully express my disadvantage.
But to me, death did not mean defeat.
“I intend to win.”
My death was a step toward victory.
“I also have a secret trick. “Trust me.”
“······.”
The witch sighed.
“okay. Like you said, every hunter has a secret. I hope your sword is sharp enough to get through that boss monster.”
Of course I intend to.
-You’re playing a fun prank. Goddess.
It was that time.
-It’s quite laughable to even look at it as it’s the last struggle. It’s light. What good is the light shining on those who do not harvest tomorrow’s rice grains? After comforting the pitiful things, did you also feel pitiful?
The Demon King’s voice crossed the battlefield.
-Then I will also show you the light.
At that moment, a loud noise rang out.
The witch and I did not let down our guard. I continued to monitor the Demon King’s movements. So, I was able to find out what the roaring noise was.
It was a sword.
slowly.
On the distant horizon, the Demon King slowly swung his sword. Time seemed to slow down. In the Demon King’s Sword, time seemed to pass differently from ours. So it seemed like the sword was just trying to kill time.
However, the devil’s sword split the sky, not time.
By the time it cut through the sky, the sword was already a single ray of red light.
The beam was aimed precisely at the castle gate and pierced through.
A dust storm blew in accompanied by a huge explosion.
The witch and I instinctively closed our eyes. While my eyes were closed, the whole place was covered in dust, and a scream could be heard from beyond the dust. It was the screams of soldiers. The sound of something collapsing followed.
After a while.
“Sigh, cough…!”
When the typhoon subsided a little, we turned our gaze toward the direction from which we heard the screams. The dust stung my eyes and it was painful, but the shock was greater than the pain.
The witch coughed dryly and then muttered.
“···Your strength is really weakened, is that right?”
The gates of the empire were broken down.
The Demon King sneered.
-You poor things.
Red rain poured down into the dusty sky.
The sound of laughter mixed with dust and flowed into the sky, mixed with rainwater and flowed to the ground.
Laughter echoed from heaven to earth.
-Are you still an empire?
3.
It wasn’t just the castle gate that collapsed.
The red rays extended even further after destroying the castle gate. The streets were crushed. Buildings lining both sides of the street were destroyed. Finally, even the towering imperial palace at the end of the street was caught up in the rays of light.
Quaaaaaaaaa!
Part of the palace collapsed. Like a ship hitting a glacier and sinking, the splendid palace tilted. And… it slowly sank down.
In the distance, the sound of the imperial palace being destroyed was heard.
[One warrior dies.]
A voice rang out nearby.
[He is not the devil’s servant.]
A voice announcing death.
“······.”
My ears were deafening.
The witch and I looked at each other for a moment.
“···It was the place where the throne room was.”
First, the witch opened her lips.
“The Sword Saint, the Heretic Questioner, and the Venomous Snake will no longer be in the throne room. Each person must be coming here leading a knight corps or an Imperial Guard. The Paladin will be busy searching for the Emperor at your command. Then, the remaining people…”
count.
“…I can’t believe you die first.”
The Count was not a traitor.
“Bad guy.”
The witch muttered quietly.
That was it.
When sending off her companion’s death, the witch did not say many words to send him off. Instead, she shook her head from side to side a few times. I wondered if it was her own way of saying goodbye to the death of her colleague.
“Black Dragon Master. “If the Count really died in battle, then the outside world…”
“now.”
The witch spoke quietly.
“For now, let’s focus on the task at hand.”
The hunter, who was said to be the second strongest in the tower, was just glaring.
Hunting prey beyond the horizon.
“No matter how much of a demon lord he is, he won’t be able to keep firing attacks like that. Gongja Kim. “Please protect the collapsed castle gate with me.”
There has been a change in the red dots on the minimap.
The army of monsters was approaching in a wide line like the waves of the sea. That has changed. The red dots became sharp like awls.
Is he trying to break through?
“yes.”
The place where the awl is headed is the castle gate.
It was a gap that the red light had destroyed.
“I think the same thing.”
I held the witch’s hand.
She nodded.
“transition.”
We moved to the collapsed castle gate.
-Grrr!
-Key, key! Kigi geek!
-Goooooo!
Before I knew it, monsters were right in front of me. Arrows were flying. Archers fired from the castle walls. However, it was not enough to stop the red wave. Goblins, orcs, skeletons, and all kinds of monsters came running, howling like beasts.
Only about two minutes until the first wave reached us.
-It’s a zombie.
Bae Hu-ryeong’s voice was heard.
-Even 1 minute is fine. No, it doesn’t matter if it’s 30 seconds.
Dozens or hundreds of monsters rushed through the dust cloud.
Monsters tens or hundreds of times larger than that were approaching, kicking up dust.
-Hold on alone.
There were no allies blocking my path.
-To win this war, you must become hope for people.
Therefore, I was standing alone on the front line.
-Hold on by yourself. Even if it’s 30 seconds, it doesn’t matter. It’s important to show that you can stop those monsters on your own. A person who survives for 30 years is not called a hero. A moment when everyone desperately needs 30 seconds. The person who gives us those 30 seconds is a hero.
I dropped my backpack on the floor.
-Become a hero.
I took out a glass bottle from my backpack.
A person who will be called the Lord of Alchemy Castle in the distant future.
A vial containing the pharmacist’s elixir.
-I will help you.
draft. Two sips. Three sips.
I poured all the elixir contained in the glass bottle down my throat.
-You promised to teach swordsmanship up to the 20th floor, right? It’s a little early, but it’s practice time.
Excited.
My heart was racing.
-Step with your back foot at an angle.
My heart pounded at intervals of one second.
-Put your front foot straight on the ground.
My heart was beating faster and faster.
-Now look at the front.
saw.
-There are two goblins in front. They originally had poor eyesight, but now they are squinting because of the dust cloud. In that case, you will instinctively try to swing your sword widely. The intention is to hit the enemy no matter where he is. Stab them before they swing.
My heart was getting faster and faster.
The one-second interval became slower and slower.
-Your holy sword’s only purpose is to shine, but it’s perfect for stealing vision. In a fight, every second doesn’t matter. Only one relative second matters. Steal your opponent’s eye with your sword and gain a second from him.
So, my 1 second was a little faster than my heart.
-come.
My sword will be a little faster than my 1 second.
-let’s go. partner.
Bae Hu-ryeong stood next to me.
-It’s time to become a hero.
I swung my sword.
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